"Blaster" Al Ackerman (1939-2013)

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Comment by Michael Leigh on May 13, 2013 at 6:32pm

I was first aware of Blaster Al when he contacted me around 1982/3 when he was doing his White Worm Review. He got my address from Dave Zack I think- he'd seen a collage I'd made of a worm wriggling under a sheet of paper and asked if he could use it in a forthcoming issue. What struck me first really was his sense of humour and slightly crazy ambience his letters had which appealed to me straight away. Here's somebody I could happily send stuff to I thought. So began a long correspondence up until he moved from Texas and vanished for a while . It was always a treat to get his "tacky little pamphlets " and off-the-wall collages and stories in the mail.  I will try and find a few out from my slush pile to show you here.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on May 13, 2013 at 11:31am

JMB, that is an awe-some Blaster Al cover!

Comment by John M. Bennett on May 13, 2013 at 2:11am

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Comment by De Villo Sloan on March 23, 2013 at 3:53pm

pardon off-topic - page from Thierry Tillier's "Anatole Au Cafe De L' Aube" (circa 1970s?) - see Sphinx 7/8 - Maciunas, Ginsberg, Ono, Mac Low. Would sure like to have Sphinx 7/8.

Comment by Ruud Janssen on March 23, 2013 at 3:50pm

RIP “Blaster” Al Ackerman

21 March 2013

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The Blaster, self-portrait, postmarked 30 December 1998, courtesy of paghat.com

“Blaster” Al Ackerman died on Sunday. He was a general in Baltimore’s literary avant garde—though
it occurs to me that assigning him a rank is way too straightforward for Blaster’s interstellar brilliance.

see: http://whatweekly.com/2013/03/21/rip-blaster-al-ackerman/

Comment by De Villo Sloan on March 23, 2013 at 3:23pm

Blaster Al in Outre #2

Comment by De Villo Sloan on March 23, 2013 at 3:22pm

Blaster Al in Outre #2

Comment by De Villo Sloan on March 23, 2013 at 3:21pm

Ad for Popular Reality in Outre #2 w/Bob Dobbs (Church of the SubGenius) logo

Comment by De Villo Sloan on March 23, 2013 at 3:20pm

Jack Berry's Outre #2 (back cover), Florence, Alabama, USA, 1986

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